Tampa Bay area residents will have more airline choices for traveling to Gulfport-Biloxi, Miss. ...more

December 18, 2009

Yesterday I went to a store to make our annual Christmas card from a photo of my daughter. It is very easy to do and there are dozens of choices for a card background, but to my surprise, none are actually Christian. It struck me as odd that they are making a profit off of Christmas but excluding the Christian aspect of it. Oh, there were Santas and snowmen, snowflakes, poinsettias and such. There was Hanukkah and other religions represented but no manger scenes, no angels, no Virgin Mary and no Jesus. ...more

December 15, 2009

Facebook is changing its privacy settings to give users more control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages. ...more

December 10, 2009

Bears sweep their five dual matches to capture tournament on their own floor. ...more

December 6, 2009

Thank you to Representative Castor for having the stamina to stand up to those ignorant opponents of health care insurance reform. ...more

September 6, 2009

Academy Awards voters are going to have to put extra effort into their choices for best picture. Oscar overseers are adopting a preferential-voting system in which academy members rank their best-picture favorites from 1 to 10. ...more

September 1, 2009

We asked, and you answered. We decided that New York Yankees star Derek Jeter's 30,875 square feet of space, a seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom waterfront home, deserved a dignified name. You came through with a ton of responses, and while most of them weren't dignified, they're all an improvement over "Jeter's place." ...more

July 23, 2009

The journalist and author was in the Daytime studio. ...more

June 4, 2009

Americans have a more favorable first impression of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor than they did for any of President George W. Bush's choices for the high court, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. ...more

June 3, 2009

A few citrus growers are replacing orange and grapefruit trees with strawberries, blueberries and peaches. ...more

May 30, 2009